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"The NBA may not recover from such a massive public relations disaster, as the league has recently struggled to reconnect to fans the way it did in the late 1980s and early 1990s."

i'm not saying the above quote is necessarily untrue but it's extreme and bleeds of emotion ahead of fact. this is why i think the entire letter would be ineffective. i think it needs to hide its emotion somewhat (at the very least) or try another tactic altogether.

after all, you won't convince many decision-makers to change their minds by telling them you're upset. it's a sad comment on the world today, i know, but these people (decision-makers, nba suits, whoever) have been trained to let emotional outcries fly in one ear and out the other.

the above quote in particular is pretty much suggesting that the nba would be facing the apocalypse by letting the sonics move out of seattle. i wouldn't say that won't happen, but it's obviously a stretch. the nba will probably survive with or without the sonics- hell, with or without any of its teams. the league's survival is probably not at stake here. to say that it is would be encouraging the reader to... stop reading.

it's similar to a courtroom. emotion doesn't really work there. i mean, it does in movies (like jfk or a time to kill or whatever) but the 'real' world is actually a little different... for better or worse. you don't want to talk/write to these people (decision-makers) like they're watching a movie. they're rarely interested in being entertained when they're at work. it sucks but... it's sort of true.

i do hope the sonics stay because there are no sonics fans in oklahoma city- and a city full of them in seattle. they deserve their team.

peace